'Jewish Indiana Jones' facing Torah fraud charge
Photo credit: Getty Images | Authorities say a “Jewish Indiana Jones” pocketed hundreds of thousands of dollars through the “Save a Torah” charity he co-founded as a nonprofit organization.
A man who claimed he crisscrossed the globe rescuing Torahs as a “Jewish Indiana Jones” has been charged with mail fraud. Authorities say he fabricated stories to dupe contributors to his charity. Menachem Youlus is charged in a federal criminal complaint unsealed Wednesday in New York City. Court papers said the owner of a Wheaton, Md., bookstore carried out the fraud from at least 2004 through...
